Campaign to Protect Centers at UNC

End Attacks on UNC System Centers and Institutes

UNC Board of Governors: Stop your efforts to eliminate, consolidate or cut funding for UNC-System Research and Advocacy Centers.

North Carolinians are lucky to have many campus-based research and advocacy centers that work to make our campuses and our state a place where gender, race, sexuality and other identities are addressed, allowing for a safe space for people with different identities to rely on.

But these centers are under attack.

The members of the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors are appointed and do not reflect the diversity of ideas in our system. It announced Friday, December 5th that it has chosen 34 centers for review, with the possibility of closing, consolidating or slashing funding from this week.

The centers at risk include the Carolina Women’s Center; Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History; N.C. Center for Biodiversity; Rural Education Institute; and the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity. The full list is below.

This defunding effort is a targeted attack by the UNC Board of Governors on the institutions that are making North Carolina a better place to live for all of us.

Please sign this petition urging the UNC Board of Governors to end their efforts to eliminate, consolidate or cut funding for these programs. To save them, we need your support.

UNC-Chapel Hill: Carolina Center for Public Service; Carolina Women’s Center; Center for Faculty Excellence; Center for Law and Government; Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity; James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy; Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History; UNC Center for Civil Rights; University of North Carolina Institute on Aging

UNC Greensboro: Center for Creative Writing in the Arts; Center for Educational Research and Evaluation; Center for New North Carolinians; Center for Social, Community and Health Research and Evaluation

UNC Wilmington: Swain Center for Business and Economic Services

Western Carolina University: Cherokee Center at WCU; Public Policy Institute

Winston-Salem State University: Center for Community Safety; Center for Economic Analysis